Siheyuan, Me and the Yu Sisters

Yi Zhonghai no longer has high hopes for Sha Zhu. The mess Sha Zhu has made this time is beyond his ability to handle.

The Jia family was eerily quiet tonight. Bang Geng wanted to make a fuss about eating meat, but Qin Huairu hit him with two bamboo sticks and he cried for a while. Jia Zhangshi also turned a blind eye and sat on the edge of the bed without saying a word.

After a while, Jia Zhang cursed

"Is this idiot Zhu really that stupid? Why is he hitting Xu Damao with a brick?"

"This is a dead family. It's over now. What should our Jia family do?"

Qin Huairu sighed, his eyes wandering, not knowing what he was thinking about. Jia Zhang continued to mutter:

"If that bastard Shazhu is really shot, there will be no one to support our family."

"Who should I ask for Banggeng's textbook fees and the food coupons at the end of the month?"

As she spoke, Jia Zhang suddenly stood up and cursed

"This bastard has really screwed our Jia family over. Qin Huairu, what are you thinking?"

Seeing that Qin Huairu didn't know what she was thinking, Jia Zhang slapped her in the face, causing Qin Huairu to gasp in pain.

"Mom, what are you doing?"

Jia Zhang said

"What are you thinking about? Sha Zhu has been shot. What will happen to our family in the future?"

Qin Huairu said

"Mom, don't talk nonsense. Shazhu hasn't said anything yet, so don't go out and say anything."

Jia Zhang said

"He beat Xu Damao like this. Didn't you hear what Third Aunt said? Xu Damao will be a eunuch in the future, and his brain may not be normal. He may be a fool."

"You don't know Xu Fugui. He is very vicious. Yi Zhonghai didn't dare to offend him easily before. How could he let Sha Zhu go?"

Qin Huairu sighed and said

"What can we do? Sha Zhu has been arrested, and it's not certain when he will be released. Even if Xu Damao is not dead, Sha Zhu will still be sent to the northwest for forced labor."

Jia Zhang cursed angrily

"Xu Damao, you who were killed thousands of times, why did you go to mess with Sha Zhu? Now you have established a fool and a eunuch, which has really screwed our Jia family over."

Qin Huairu looked at Jia Zhangshi cursing in silence. This old hag really treated Sha Zhu as her own blood bag. She felt sorry for Sha Zhu.

Jia Zhang scolded for a long time, then said to Qin Huairu

"Qin Huairu, if Shazhu is gone, who do you think we can find to support our family?"

"Why not let Yi Zhonghai hold another hospital-wide meeting to donate money to our family?"

Qin Huairu thought for a moment and shook his head and said

"Mom, I'm afraid not."

"Yi Zhonghai is no longer the boss now, and his past deeds have made people in the courtyard no longer trust him. I'm afraid Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui won't care about our family anymore."

Jia Zhang said arrogantly

"If they dare not donate to us, I will crash into their doorsteps."

Qin Huairu was like a white-faced Jia Zhang, thinking to himself, "If you really have the guts, it would be great. It's all talk and no action."

"Mom, this is useless. Ever since Zhang Renkang and our family fell out, and he is now a cadre leader, the people in the hospital are avoiding us, so how can they donate to us?"

Jia Zhang suddenly said

"Qin Huairu, what do you say? Let's get your cousin here, have her sleep with Zhang Renkang, and force Zhang Renkang to marry her?"

"This way we have something on Zhang Renkang, so we don't have to worry about him not helping us."

Qin Huairu no longer had any hope for Jia Zhang's brain. Zhang Renkang's house was locked, and he didn't drink often. How could you let Qin Jingru sleep with him? And Yu Li was about to move in. Could she not watch Zhang Renkang?

Qin Huairu said

"We can call Jingru over to see if they can continue."

"Mom, stop using these unreliable tricks. If you offend Zhang Renkang again, you can expect our family to starve to death."

Jia Zhang snorted and stopped complaining. Although Jia Zhang was arrogant, she was not really brainless. She and Qin Huairu were two widows running the family. If they hadn't used some tricks, they would have been eaten up by others long ago. She was arrogant and caused trouble everywhere every day. She was playing rogue just for others to see. She was not the kind to be messed with, so that some people with ulterior motives would give up. Qin Huairu played the role of a wronged and filial person to win sympathy and exchange things for her family from each household.

Without the cooperation of the two of them over the years, given the current situation of the Jia family, there is still a pretty young widow who would have been eaten up by others long ago.

Liu Haizhong was actually in a good mood today. With Sha Zhu in jail, Yi Zhonghai would lose a right-hand man in the courtyard. Besides, he was now the legitimate uncle. Yi Zhonghai should be thrown into the garbage. He asked the second aunt to fry two eggs, poured two taels of wine, and hummed a little tune while enjoying himself.

Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu on the side saw that Liu Haizhong was in a good mood and thought he would not be beaten today. They breathed a sigh of relief and drank their porridge and ate their steamed bread. They looked at the scrambled eggs on the table with envy and drooled.

Liu Haizhong finished drinking two liang of wine and looked at the empty bottle angrily.

"Where's the wine? Why is that all we have today?"

The second aunt said

"Hadn't there been this incident between Sha Zhu and Xu Damao this afternoon, I guess your son just wanted to watch the fun and didn't go to buy anything."

Liu Haizhong usually drinks one catty of wine a week, two taels a day, and it is Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu who go to get the wine. Today, they were so excited about watching the show that they forgot about it for a moment. Liu Haizhong was so angry that he slammed the table and shouted angrily:

"You two little bastards, what's the point of keeping you two?"

"You can't even do this, NTMD"

As he said that, he pulled out his belt and hit Liu Guangtian, who fell to the ground with his head in his hands. Liu Guangfu also quickly knelt down and lay still. The two of them didn't dare to run away. If they ran away, Liu Haizhong would beat them even harder when he came back. Last time, he almost beat Liu Guangtian to death. Liu Haizhong whipped the two unfortunate brothers with his belt. The screams instantly spread throughout the courtyard. Everyone was used to it. If there hadn't been this noise at Liu Haizhong's house that day, everyone would have thought that Liu Haizhong was dead.

Zhang Renkang pushed the cart back to the courtyard and just entered the gate when Yan Bugui appeared out of nowhere. Seeing Zhang Renkang, he shouted

"Renkang, why did you come back just now?"

Zhang Renkang had something to do at the factory today, as the exam was approaching, so he gathered several apprentices and kitchen helpers in a canteen to teach them cooking skills during off-get off work hours. Sha Zhu was disdainful of learning from Zhang Renkang, and he was already a senior chef, but he didn't know how to behave, and he had a foul mouth, so he was kept at the seventh level and was not allowed to move up.

It was almost dark when Zhang Renkang came back. He saw Yan Bugui take out a cigarette and handed it to him. He lit one himself and said with a smile:

"Uncle, it's so cold, why are you standing guard at the door?"

"My factory's kitchen staff are about to take exams, and I was busy teaching them some techniques, so I got home late from get off work."

Yan Bugui took a puff of smoke comfortably. He waited for Zhang Renkang at the door every day just for this cigarette. Zhang Renkang was not as stingy as Xu Damao, nor as mean as Sha Zhu. He always gave him cigarettes politely. Yan Bugui had a good impression of Zhang Renkang. Yan Bugui smiled and said,

"Renkang, if you weren't so lenient, you would really teach them the skills, and these people wouldn't even say they would give you any benefits."

Zhang Renkang laughed

"Look at what you said, my cooking skills are just so-so, I will feel relieved if I teach everyone, don't you think this makes sense?"

Yan Bugui nodded and said

"That's right. You are a cadre and you don't need to cook in the kitchen. You don't have to worry about them learning how to cook and then starving yourself."

"Let me tell you, something big happened in our hospital this afternoon."

Zhang Renkang asked in confusion

"Uncle, what big thing could happen here?"

Yan Bugui coughed a few times and stopped talking. His eyes were always on Zhang Renkang's pocket. Zhang Renkang understood what he was saying and said with a smile.

"Uncle, it's so cold and you're working the gate. It must be hard work. Take this half pack and smoke it."

As he spoke, he handed the half pack of cigarettes in his pocket to Yan Bugui.